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...CHILDREN OF THE HOUSE by Brian Fairfax-Lucy and Philippa Pearce (Lippincott, $3.95) concerns four lonely children growing up in aristocratic poverty in England before World War I. It is quietly moving to watch them finding happiness of sorts among themselves and with their only allies, the servants...
...such a fine foil to Rosalind that their scenes together continually spark the show. ames Burt is a good Touchstone, if a strange one--his line readings are often incredibly fast, his hand gestures are always excessively generous, but his physical agility is delightful. Brian McGunigle (Corin) and Philippa Lord (Audrey) provide perfect comic cameos, while George Rosen doubling as Duke Senior and Duke Frederick, struggles bravely and often successfully with the one marked piece of ineffective casting in the production...
...Died. Philippa Schuyler, 34, Harlem-born pianist with a strong journalistic and humanitarian bent, a onetime child prodigy who performed her own compositions with the New York Philharmonic at 14, in later years made concert tours to many of the world's troubled areas, recounting her impressions in newspaper articles and several outspoken books (Who Killed the Congo), also helped found the Amerasian Foundation to aid the mothers of illegitimate children fathered by U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam; in the crash of a U.S. Army helicopter; near Danang, South Viet Nam, where she was doubling as entertainer and correspondent...
ANIMALS IN AFRICA by Peter and Philippa Scott. 166 pages. Clarkson N. Potter. $12.50, and ANIMAL WORLDS by Marston Bates. 316 pages. Random House. $15. These volumes provide the armchair naturalist with some of the year's best animal photographs and the best substitute for a safari he is likely to find anywhere. Animals in Africa brings its lens to bear on all manner of African fauna, from elephants lumbering through the bush with ears spread like spinnakers to a striped chameleon inching its way into the center of a hibiscus flower. Animal Worlds, with photographs by Ylla, Fritz...
Married. Nicholas Monsarrat, 42, British author of the bestselling novel The Cruel Sea; and Philippa Crosby, 34, to whom he dedicated his book; he for the second time, she for the first; in Johannesburg, South Africa...